A sociology of modernity : liberty and discipline / Peter Wagner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wagner, Peter, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology--Philosophy.

Sociology.

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A Sociology of Modernity offers a historical account of social transformation over the past two centuries - focusing on Western Europe, but also looking at the USA and Society Socialism as distinct varieties of modernity.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Prologue; Acknowledgements; Modes of narrating modernity; Enablement and constraint: Understanding modern institutions; Restricted liberal modernity: The incomplete elaboration of the modern project; Crisis and transformation of modernity: The end of the liberal utopia; Networks of power and barriers to entry: The organization of allocative practices; Building iron cages: The organization of authoritative practices; Discourses on society: Reorganizing the mode of cognitive representation; Pluralization of practices: The crisis of organized modernity

Sociology and contingency: The crisis of the organized mode of representation Modernity and self-identity: Liberation and disembedding; Incoherent practices and postmodern selves: The current condition of modernity; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Modernity.

ISBN:

1-134-89190-3

1-134-89191-1

1-138-17742-3

1-280-32128-8

0-585-45267-9

9780203418574

OCLC:

437080551